Financial Crime and Corruption

2nd EDITION

Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.

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A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2007

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CONTENTS

I. Slush Funds

II. Corruption and Transparency

III.Money Laundering in A Changed World

IV. Hawala, or The Bank that Never Was

V. Straf - Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe

VI. The Kleptocracies of the East

VII. FIMACO - Russia's Missing Billions

VIII. The Enrons of the East

IX. The Typology of Financial Scandals

X. The Shadowy World of International Finance

XI. Treasure Island Revisited On Maritime Piracy

XII. Legalizing Crime

APPENDIX - Should Drugs be Legalized?

XIII. Begging Your Trust in Africa

XIV. Organ Trafficking in Eastern Europe

XV. Selling Arms to Rogue States

XVI. The Industrious Spies

XVII. Russia's Idled Spies

XVIII. The Business of Torture

XIX. The Criminality of Transition

XX. The Economics of Conspiracy Theories

XXI. The Demise of the Work Ethic

XXII. The Morality of Child Labor

XXIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield

XXIV. The Future of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Section 3 of the Act, titled "Commission Rules and

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